In search of the ecological citizen

Jagers, Sverker C.

doi:10.1080/09644010802624751

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“…Berglund & Matti, 2006;Steg & Vlek, 2009). At the same time, several studies describe how people, although subscribing to strong environmental values, fail to take pro-environmental action in their day-to-day lives (Jagers, 2009;Martinsson & Lundqvist, 2010). Moreover, empirical studies also demonstrate a considerable variation in explanatory strength across specific features of a policy measure, both in terms of policy design and type of behaviour being targeted.…”

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The impact of compensatory measures on public support for carbon taxation: an experimental study in Sweden

2018

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This study aims at better understanding how, and to what extent, perceptions of a policy instrument's distributional effects impact on policy support, focusing on the case of CO 2 taxes on petrol in Sweden. Through a large-scale (N = 5000) randomized survey experiment with a 2 × 3 factorial design, the extent to which perceptions of fairness determine attitudes to a suggested increase of the Swedish CO 2 tax is explored. Furthermore, the study considers whether these effects change with the level of the suggested tax increase, as well as whether negative sentiments can be alleviated by combining it with a compensatory measure in the shape of a simultaneous income tax cut financed by the revenues from the tax increase. The results show that a higher tax increase is both viewed as more unfair and enjoys weaker support. Furthermore, compensatory measures can be a powerful policy design tool to increase perceptions of the policy as fair, but the effect of compensation on policy support is conditioned by the individual's leftright ideological position. Whereas people self-identifying to the right react favourably to compensatory measures, people self-identifying to the left become less supportive of a tax increase when combined with a simultaneous cut in income taxes. Key policy insights. Perceptions of fairness are highly important for explaining public support for climate policy tools, specifically CO 2 taxes. . Compensatory measures can be a powerful policy design tool to increase perceptions of the policy as less unfair. . However, the effect of compensatory measures on policy support is conditioned by ideological position, and only successful among people to the ideological right. . In contexts dominated by right-wing ideals, a combination of a tax and a compensatory scheme may be a successful route forward towards increased climate policy support. . In left-oriented contexts the results imply that a CO 2 tax without compensation seems more likely to increase support.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Policy Support and Perceived Fairnessmentioning

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The impact of compensatory measures on public support for carbon taxation: an experimental study in Sweden

2018

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“…the importance of nature for local forms of solidarity in cities, in the North as in the South), or that of the economy of the new trends/sectors of locally-oriented production (ecological housing, local consumption of agricultural and cooperative products…), it first examines this model from the point of view of the "myth of the passive citizen" which makes this model operational (Rosanvallon, 2008). Individuals as subjects aspire more and more often to different ways of life and commitments, often invoking nature and the environment (see for instance Haanpää, 2007, for the role of lifestyles or Jagers, 2009, for the role of perceived ideologies in commitments; see also Dobré and Juan, 2009, for French cases). Also, the constitution of new, more informal collective entities, increasingly underpins no less social forms of mobilization (Lolive, 2010), also via different relations to the environment and to nature (e.g.…”

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The Environment as a Factor of Spatial Injustice: A New Challenge for the Sustainable Development of European Regions?

Faburel¹

2012

Sustainable Development - Policy and Urban Development - Tourism, Life Science, Management and Environment

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“…Yet many of the studies cited here do not encompass the broad spectrum of everyday behaviors envisioned by green citizenship. Instead, private sphere behaviors are routinely measured by individuals' willingness to purchase green products and reduce household waste, while public sphere behaviors involve support for environmental policies, including increased taxes on petrol and non eco-labeled products (Jagers 2009;Jagers, Martinsson, and Matti 2014;Wolf, Brown, and Conway 2009).…”

Section: Green Consumption and Environmental Behaviormentioning

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“…Empirical research has systematically examined ecological citizenship and the extent to which members of society hold the values and beliefs Dobson highlights (Horton 2005;Jagers 2009;Jagers and Matti 2010;Jagers, Martinsson, and Matti 2014;Seyfang 2006;Wolf, Brown, and Conway 2009). Jagers and Matti (2010) sought to measure ecological citizenship in a Swedish population, while Wolf, Brown, and Conway (2009) explored how Canadian citizens' perceptions of personal responsibility influenced their actions as voters and consumers.…”

Section: Green Consumption and Environmental Behaviormentioning

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Beyond Green Consumerism: Uncovering the Motivations of Green Citizenship

Harbo¹,

Young²,

Guckian³

2017

Michigan Journal of Sustainability

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Individual behavior change is a necessary condition for making a positive societal transition to a resource-constrained future. Because we live on a planet with finite resources, behavior change interventions need to move beyond creating "green consumers" and instead foster and support "green citizens." Green consumerism has proven largely ineffective in curbing collective rates of consumption; despite improved efficiencies and green-and-lean social norms and policies, society's aggregate resource and energy usage continues to climb. There is an urgent need to promote agency and self-sufficiency with regard to individual conservation behaviors, while simultaneously promoting mindfulness of collective impacts on the planet. Based on 74 Michigan Journal of Sustainability, sustainability.umich.edu/mjs an analysis of results from a community-based survey (N=223) conducted in Southeastern Michigan, this article develops a profile of a green citizen and documents how it differs from that of a green consumer. Characteristics of green citizenship go beyond pro-environmental knowledge and attitudes and thoughtful consumer behavior. Green citizens hold a distinct psychological motivation from the frugal use of resources and demonstrate a connection to nature, compared to green consumers, who are motivated by helping others and identify with pro-environmental attitudes. The emerging profile of green citizens and their associated behaviors suggest a need for policy and community action initiatives that dramatically differ from those currently aimed at promoting green consumerism. A reframing of environmental programs, away from consumerism and toward citizenship, may prove challenging. Deeply embedded in most current environmental efforts is a view of people as consumers who can be manipulated to make the correct decisions. The data reported here uncover mindful actors with power and agency. The article concludes by offering recommendations for policymakers, educators, and organizers to foster durable change in our communities.

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In search of the ecological citizen

Cited by 50 publications

References 25 publications

The impact of compensatory measures on public support for carbon taxation: an experimental study in Sweden

The impact of compensatory measures on public support for carbon taxation: an experimental study in Sweden

The Environment as a Factor of Spatial Injustice: A New Challenge for the Sustainable Development of European Regions?

Beyond Green Consumerism: Uncovering the Motivations of Green Citizenship

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